Concept
Phenomenology (philosophy)

Overview
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the external world, aiming to describe phenomena as they appear and exploring the significance of lived experience
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Philosophers who discussed Phenomenology (philosophy)
- Gilbert Ryle
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Bernard Lonergan
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Avicenna
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Henri Bergson
- Heraclitus
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Norberto Bobbio
- Immanuel Kant
- Judith Butler
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Colin Wilson
- Karl Mannheim
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Mario Bunge
- Augustine of Hippo
- Paul Natorp
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Gianni Vattimo
- Evan Thompson
- Maurice Blanchot
- Henry Corbin
Related ideas
- Bracketing (phenomenology)
- History
- Subjective character of experience
- Self-reflection
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Henri Bergson
- Immanuel Kant
- Ancient Greek
- Verstehen
- Intuition
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- On the Soul
- Intentionality
- Epoché
- Culture
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Intersubjectivity
- Evidence
- Mental state
- Qualia
- Plato
- Élan vital
- Physicalism
Opposing perspectives
- Cognitive linguistics
- Subjective character of experience
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Psychology
- Experience
- Introspection
- Phenomenology (physics)
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Bracketing (phenomenology)
- Edith Stein
- Social environment
- Dan Zahavi
- Lived experience
- Phenomenology (architecture)
- Rüdiger Safranski
- Leonard Lawlor
- Michel Henry
- Phenomenology (sociology)
- Don Ihde
- Human–computer interaction
- Embodied cognitive science
- Intersubjective verifiability
- Maurice Natanson
- Outline of health sciences
- Lisa Guenther
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